We've covered Black Friday deals from Sprint and Verizon already, and they've been pretty predictable. T-Mobile, though, is taking a different approach. For the next three months, the carrier is giving all of its postpaid Simple Choice customers unlimited LTE, active right now.

Before you get too excited, the unlimited LTE doesn't kick in until after you've used up your current month's data and your data stash.

The holidays are for connecting with family and friends. In fact, data usage on T-Mobile’s network jumps more than 10% in December. The last thing customers want to worry about is their data, so T-Mobile is taking that worry away. For the next three months, everybody – all active Simple Choice postpaid customers as of end of day November 23, including business customers – has Unlimited 4G LTE smartphone data once you use up all your data and your Data Stash.

The offer also doesn't apply to tethering (as usual), and T-Mobile will still terminate your plan if you go overboard.

Starting next week, the carrier will offer a holiday deal for Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon customers. We'll have to wait and see what those creative forms of bribery will be.

So let's jump to the stuff you can get much sooner. T-Mobile is kicking off its Black Friday sales tomorrow, the 25th, rather than Thursday evening.

On the smartphone front, T-Mobile is giving out the 32GB Galaxy S6 for $0 upfront and $0 per month with JUMP! On Demand. You can also save $100 off a Samsung tablet when you buy any Samsung smartphone.

Really, T-Mobile wants you to keep your eyes ahead to Cyber Monday and the remainder of the holiday season. The deals will just keep rolling.

Press Release

T-Mobile Amps the Holidays, Starts with Gift of Unlimited LTE for Existing Customers

Un-carrier announces Black Friday offers and kicks off ‘Un-carrier Unwrapped’ − four weeks in a row of surprise holiday gifts − starting with three full months of unlimited LTE data for T-Mobile customers – at no extra charge!

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) is kicking off the holidays in style with Un-carrier Unwrapped, a full month of holiday gift-giving, with one special gift coming each week. First up, the Un-carrier is giving the gift of unlimited high-speed data for your smartphone – for the next three months – to every single one of its postpaid Simple Choice customers. But in true T-Mobile fashion, we won’t stop there. T-Mobile is also delivering special holiday gifts to Sprint, AT&T and Verizon customers starting next week – one carrier per week. Plus, T-Mobile is serving up a banquet of holiday offers, including a free tablet, $0 down $0 per month on the Samsung Galaxy S6 32GB with JUMP! On Demand, and more.

“We’ve had a fantastic year, and we’re going to spread that T-Mobile cheer by starting with the most important people first… our existing customers! Now you get Unlimited LTE data on our blazing fast network for three full months as a gift from the Un-carrier to you,” said John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile. “But that’s not all….we know that Verizon, AT&T and Sprint customers need some holiday cheer, too - so we’ve got presents coming for them. Just wait!”

The holidays are for connecting with family and friends. In fact, data usage on T-Mobile’s network jumps more than 10% in December. The last thing customers want to worry about is their data, so T-Mobile is taking that worry away. For the next three months, everybody – all active Simple Choice postpaid customers as of end of day November 23, including business customers – has Unlimited 4G LTE smartphone data once you use up all your data and your Data Stash.

And, as the Un-carrier so often does, they’ve done the hard work to keep things simple for customers. Simple Choice postpaid customers don’t have to do a thing to get their Unlimited LTE gift. On December 1, 2015, the special holiday gift will simply appear under the tree—that is, in their existing T-Mobile plan. Which is how gifts ought to be given, right? No stress. No hassles. And, they’ll keep that free Unlimited LTE smartphone data as long as they’re on the same T-Mobile plan with Binge On active until March 1, 2016.

More gifts – for the carriers’ mistreated customers – will start arriving next Monday, one carrier per week. Stay tuned.

Black Friday: Get a Tablet on Us – and a Whole Lot More

On top of this unprecedented customer gift, Black Friday is starting early at T-Mobile. Beginning this Wednesday, November 25, you can get the popular Alcatel Onetouch Pixi™ 7” Android-powered™ 4G LTE tablet for $0 with any qualifying data plan at participating T-Mobile stores across the country andonline. That's right: $0 down, $0 payments; you pay only the sales tax. With Binge On and a new tablet this holiday season, the entire family can watch all the holiday movies they want from top video services like Netflix, HBO, Hulu, and SlingTV and never worry about the Grinch gobbling up your high-speed data.

More Black Friday Deals:

T-Mobile customers can get the popular Samsung Galaxy S6 32GB for just $0 upfront and $0 per month with JUMP! On Demand with an eligible trade-in. $0 + $0 = $0. You pay only the sales tax!

When you buy ANY Samsung smartphone, you get $100 off a Samsung tablet! Combined with the Black Friday Weekend offer on the Samsung Galaxy S6, it’s a helluva deal!

Get the popular UE Boom Bluetooth speaker for $100 off (retail price $199) and enjoy all the holiday tunes you can handle – without ever using your high-speed data bucket thanks to T-Mobile’s Music Freedom.

And on top of it all, T-Mobile customers can look forward to Cyber Monday and a free memory upgrade on the bestselling smartphone around. Learn more here.

Limited time offers; subject to change. Plus taxes and fees. Participating locations; while supplies last. For well-qualified customers. Promo device prices after bill credits; qualifying plan and finance agreements required. Unlimited LTE: Does not include tethering. Other benefits of Unlimited LTE plan (e.g., Vudu movie rental) not included. Service may be restricted or terminated for misuse. See Open Internet page for network management practices. Galaxy S6: 18-mo lease; must maintain valid lease agreement. At lease end you must return working device or pay it off to keep it. You are responsible for insurance/repairs. No device security deposit required. Samsung tablet: $100 as a T-Mobile® Prepaid MasterCard® card. Must be active and in good standing when processed; allow up to 8 weeks from receipt of 2nd device. Tablet on us: If you cancel wireless service, remaining tablet balance at full price becomes due. Binge On: Video typically streams at DVD quality (480p or better) from included services while on our network. You may disable Binge On at any time, but will lose Binge On benefits. Not avail. on certain BlackBerry devices/plans. Third party content and subscription charges may apply, See streaming services’ terms & conditions.

Comments

Too many catches. You also have to exhaust your data stash before you get the unlimited data.

David

They're already handing out gobs and gobs of unlimited LTE data for no extra cost and you're saying that's not good enough for you...?

flosserelli

Some people would complain about getting a blow job.

Bruce Wayne

If she uses teeth, yes.

Bruce Wayne

I have 10GB of data stash which I'd like to keep for a rainy day and I don't want to have binge-on. I just think it would be a better deal if you didn't have to finish your data stash.

Chester

The remainder of the 10GB data stash we got in January expires at the end of the year anyways. Either use it all and enjoy unlimited data for 3 months, or lose the stash and enjoy unlimited data for 3 months.

Unless you've hoarded some rollover data. I'm guessing you'll keep that until it expires or you use it all.

T-Mo might be getting us to have zero rollover data by February, but by then they'll probably have released some new consumer value-added item that gives us more data anyways.

Bruce Wayne

The data stash expires by the end of the year? I didn't know that. I guess I'll have to hurry up and use up all of mine.

David

The 10 GB gift bestowed upon your account last January expires after a year. The Data Stash feature itself rolls over your data month to month for up to one year. And there's no hurry to use it if you don't need to

Brad

Yep...

DuckingGold

Jesus, people bitch about anything.

Bruce Wayne

The only person bitching here is you. Don't like it. Don't read it.

Lexster

See, here's what confuses me. I constantly hear them talking about free video data and music data for customers. Are there that many people who don't have unlimited already? I'm on Simple Choice with unlimited data and my plan is like $70 minus tax and my installment plan. So...I guess I don't understand why you wouldn't just get unlimited data if you're on T-Mobile with it being so cheap compared to other companies where you can't even get unlimited.

It's just the way T-Mobile talks, having unlimited data with them is unusual. Is it that unusual that they need to have entire promotions where they need to exclude data from counting for music and video streaming?

I'd be more than happy to just pay for 6GB and only have non-video/music things count. Hell, even three.

Lexster

Personally, i prefer having unlimited data so I don't need to worry what services are excluded and which ones aren't. Looks like the prices went up quite a bit since I originally joined T-Mobile, though, so that might explain it. Now people get way less for $70 than they did when I got the unlimited plan, it seems. That's a shame...but makes sense now except for the fact that if you can afford to give away music and video for free (the two types of data usage that is the highest amount, no doubt), then...you might as well just get rid of the data cap.

A good chunk of that is covered by the video/music streaming deal though. and if youtube gets added it'll be even more. but the security blanket is nice :)

Cory S

None of the streaming in that is covered by the music or video streaming deal, and even if it were it wouldn't apply to me as I wouldn't watch stuff in 480p. if a new flagship came out with a 480p screen because "thats all we need on a 5-6" phone" people would laugh it out of the room.

galeos

Holy cow! what's "Android OS" doing way up there?

Cory S

I think it was probably from downloading offline maps in maps.

WitnessG

I'm perfectly fine with my 3gb plan, as I mostly use wifi anyway. I used to have unlimited but I would almost never go over 2gb.

Z5 family, specifically its the Z5 Compact. And no Sony device has had certification done.

flosserelli

For many people, an extra $30-45/month is significant.

Lexster

Yes, I didn't realize the price had gone up so much, I mean I only joined T-Mobile back when the Note 3 came out and back then it was $70 for unlimited everything. An increase of $25 is kind of crazy, so I didn't think it had gone up that much.

DuckingGold

What other company still offers unlimited data, aside from Sprint, if you're not grandfathered in? It still is a big deal.

Lexster

No, I'm not asking why unlimited data is a big deal. I'm asking why offering it to lower plans is when you can just get an unlimited plan. And, for that matter, if they can manage to indeed give away the unlimited data for the services people us the most data on..why not just give everyone unlimited data?

Fifth313ment

Because it's expensive, see my response to you above.

Daishi

Yeah, 2G unlimited data - WHOOO!

Fifth313ment

I don't know how you got it so cheap. I'm on a family plan and my bill is $60 (with tax included) as I just upgraded to unlimited right before they up'ed the price by $15 a month! My bill was $40 a month before unlimited on a 4.5GB plan. Also I don't have a payment plan for my phone which would jump it another $15-30 a month for a total of approx $75-90 a month (before the recent price hikes)! Now that same price is $15 more so you are looking at $115 with tax give or take few dollars ($10+ if you add jump or insurance). So you must be grandfathered in or something as it's not that cheap as you said. Before unlimited was only $20 more per month on your normal plan, then they up'ed it to 30 more (where I jumped in) and now it is $45 more per month. But those who still have it on the older prices get to keep those prices grandfathered in.

Oh and everyone I know has T-Mobile, EVERYONE! Me and my fiance are the only ones with unlimited data as everyone else has metered data plans with them. So yes it is not the norm to have unlimited data as it's expensive after your phone payment plan, jump program, insurance, etc.

instinct

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there is a very large chunk that aren't on unlimited high speed. My family plan has two that aren't out of five. I would bet that more than half the customers are not on unlimited high speed.

Cory S

I am already an unlimited customer with a Note 5 on Jump on demand. Early adopters always get screwed :(

How is it working with the zero down zero a month Galaxy S6 with JOD? So it's free until the 18 months is over then you have to jump or buy the rest of it?

Jesus

SO right now if i deplete all my allowance will i get unlimited? or until dec 1st?

Brad

Starts Nov 23 according to the article... I see where you're confused, though, because it also sounds like it starts Dec 1

Jesus

So right now i can spend the rest of my 2.5GB on kitty videos and then my unlimited data will kick in right?

bkosh84

Plus how much you have in Data Stash.

Brad

I have to burn through my stash anyway, so I'm just gonna not worry about anything haha

Christopher McKee

Looking at the press release clears this up. It says that all customers who were active as of Nov 23rd are eligible, but then the offer begins on Dec 1st thru March 1st, but it also looks like you need to have Binge On active in order to be eligible.

Daishi

Legere is pussy-footing around. If he really wanted to turn the mobile market on its ear, he'd bring back UDP without throttling. I'd love to see this just to watch the other carriers squirm.